Mt. Pleasant Classical Academy

The garage building process is progressing—sorry I haven’t posted any photos but our digital camera hasn’t been working right Sometimes it will take the photo and sometimes not at all, which you don’t know until you go to download them. But I was able to get these photos this morning.

To me this photo of the front-side makes the place look small but that’s a full size pick-up truck and it’s 40′ across the front. As you can see in the photos the walls are up, roof is on, floor laid, windows in, side-door on.

The boys are adding on the soffits until the rain comes. SK is up on the ladder hammering while MK passes stuff to him:

The garage doors came in but need to be picked up from Lowe’s. They will go on today during the rain, and we will soon be purchasing siding, insulation, and electrical supplies. These are BIG ticket items. So, when a homeschooling friend shared that they had purchased several Lowe’s coupons on EBay for 10% off, I went over to EBay, found a couple hundred listings for Lowe’s Coupons, read the fine print;

“These are real Lowe’s coupons that can be used immediately. Each time you use one of these coupons, you can save up to $1000 on your entire purchase. Each coupon has a unique bar code that allows for one time use only. Most Home Depot stores that accept competitor’s coupons will accept these, but please verify with your local store before bidding.
Coupon fine print:
Coupon not redeemable for cash and cannot be used in combination with any other coupon or discount. Limit one per household. Good for a single purchase of merchandise only up to 10,000. Not valid on previous sales, installation fees, or gift cards.”

and decided to bid on a coupon set. I quickly won 3 coupons for all of $1.98. They arrived in the mail and then I read the REAL FINE PRINT:

†Coupon is not redeemable for cash, is nontransferable and cannot be used in conjunction with any other coupon or discount. Void if copied, transferred, or sold through any on-line auctions. Limit one coupon per household

Yep, nontransferable and void if sold through any on-line auctions.

The code of ethics, doing what is proper and honest at all times, is what we have instilled in our boys.   DH and I looked at the three coupons and have decided that in our heart we cannot use them. Unethical in our minds to use them since the print states that they are void if sold through any on-line auction. Ironically I also visited Lowe’s homepage where I found the coupon, requested one, and Lowe’s sent it to me which we will use, but not the other three. Call me silly, or stupid for not using them, but in our home to do so would be unethical.

DH and I had our little discussion at the kitchen table, where the boys could hear us discuss how much money the coupons would save us, but also about how to do so would be unethical for us. I followed all this with a little email over to EBay too. I don’t know if they will do anything about it, but with 174 coupon listings for Lowe’s alone, they should. Ethics 101, Saturday morning, 8AM, ahh, feel good moment.